Their Thirty-five Battles Against Nazi Germany in a B-24 Bomber from May to September 1944 with the 445TH Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force Based at Tibenham, England.
As presented by, 2nd Lt. Freddie Becchetti, Bombardier and Navigator and Tech Sergeant Garl McHenry, Radio Operator and Gunner, of B-24 Crew No. 2366.

War took them from family, friends and their future and tossed them among strangers from all over the United States. Soldiers trained them to kill in special ways and put them in a flying machine filled with tons of death and destruction.

War took them up five miles into the cold air over the fields and cities of Europe, and men shot fiery steel at them to kill or maim them.

They did this more than thirty times in the summer of 1944, raining death and destruction down on the enemy and made it back over thirty times, to come back to family and friends, but to a different future.

Since the beginning of time, it seems, a story of war always becomes a glorious story of heroes. This is a story of war, but it is not about glory and it is not about heroes. It is simply about ten of the twelve million ordinary young men in our country who were called to war from 1940 to 1945 to halt the attempt by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan to conquer the world and impose their way of life, their way of thinking on that world.

The U.S. Army Air Corps called these ten men "B-24 Crew No. 2366." The crew became part of an army that fought its battles five miles in the air in primitive thin-skinned, rattle-trap airplanes loaded down with high-octane gasoline and carrying tons of explosives in their bellies.

This is a story of how the men of Crew 2366 fought their battles over Europe. It also tells about where they came from, how the Army prepared them to be on Crew 2366, how they stayed sane through the battles and finally what happened to them after it was all over.

Here are the young men of Crew 2366, the oldest, 31, and the youngest, 19, just out of high school: